[B-Greek] Help!

Bai Jiansheng baijiansheng at bigfoot.com
Tue May 24 22:27:15 EDT 2005


The Byz (Mt 16:13) reads: TINA ME LEGOUSIN OI ANQRWPOI EINAI TON UION 
TOU ANQRWPOU, the ME being added to the NA text, and the translation 
changing to something like, "Who do men say that I, the Son of Man, 
am?" or, "Who do men say that I am? The Son of Man?"  And this clause 
gave ancient interpreters much to talk about.

Also, IMO translating indirect clauses using EINAI into English as "to 
be" infinitival clauses rarely does justice to contemporary English 
expression.  We almost never say, "He said himself to be happy."  
Instead we almost always say, "He said that he was happy."  We should 
use contemporary English expressions to express Greek clauses.

Bai Jiansheng




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